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May 20th, 2019, 10:00 | #11 |
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I have a set of headlights (from a facelift 960) with working wipers if you want them?
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May 21st, 2019, 23:39 | #12 |
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Thanks for the offer.
I got my MOT pass with no advisories not bad for a 171000 mile 22 year old car. I may look to get the wash/wipers working again but probably not. Its like the sunroof only tilting not sliding back not a priority at the moment.
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May 21st, 2019, 23:50 | #13 |
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Congrats on the pass, like everything else in life, it would be nice if they worked but other things are probably more important at the moment. I know the feeling!
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May 22nd, 2019, 08:50 | #14 |
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I took mine off my car, they are pretty pointless things IMHO. Makes the front end of the car a lot cleaner looking and saves a few kg in weight! Got the proper Vovo blanking plugs to hide the holes
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May 22nd, 2019, 09:11 | #15 | |
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Being fen mud, it's particularly dark and for good measure, the sugar beet makes it sticky as well. On a damp night, after about 10-15 minutes, without them you'd see 5/8 of 3/10 of diddly-squat!
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May 26th, 2019, 00:27 | #16 |
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My 940 is the first and only car which I have owned which has headlight washer/wipers. They earned their keep a few winters ago. Driving in the dark in light but soft and wet falling snow. Headlights getting progressively dimmer between the occasional use of the windscreen wipers. Headlights returned to normal brightness after windscreen wipe. The snow had been sticking to and building up on the headlamp lenses until wiped off by the wiper.
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May 26th, 2019, 00:47 | #17 | |
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Reason i ask is that falling snow is generally clean and the heat from the halogen bulbs inside the headlamp usually melts it. If the roads were salty the car in front would have been throwing salt onto the lenses which bakes on to an opaque white finish reducing the light output until the melting snow is used by the wipers to clean it off. Using LED headlamp bulbs gets round this problem nicely and the near-daylight of the LEDs (if you get good ones) cuts through the snow and fog to make it easier on your mince-pies.
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May 26th, 2019, 15:00 | #18 |
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Yes Dave. Dual carriageway which had been salted and there was preceding traffic. Re LEDs, too many other matters to sort out before even thinking about those.
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If you do consider LED headlamp bulbs, give me a shout and i'll point you in the right direction for some that will work properly, there are too many cheap ones on ebay promising the moon but only a few actually do what they're designed to and sadly, usually more expensive but they are a "fit'n'forget" improvement and if you're anything like me, you'll wonder why you didn't do it before!
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